#natives

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#attitude #dogmas #evidence #find #insists

These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire. ↗

— Henry Hudson

#arrows #bows #broke #fire #good

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#alternatives #appreciation #courage #honour #inspiring-quotes

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#decided #depth #itself #masters #quality

On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses. ↗

— William Bligh

#cape #daylight #fires #first #first time

Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution. ↗

— William Bligh

#augmented #caution #conduct #did #general

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them. ↗

— William Bligh

#beginning #collecting #day #first #had

Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#arms #be careful #careful

If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#country #dallas #dangerous #detroit #dressed

The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters. ↗

— Robert Morley

#always #british #happy #long #natives